Published in Overland Issue False Documents · Uncategorized The Museum of Lost Things Sonia Focke A look at the archives Image: Pasteurised milk bottle / flickr Read the rest of False Documents If you enjoyed this special edition, subscribe and receive a year’s worth of print issues, the online magazine, special editions and discounted entry to our literary competitions Sonia Focke Sonia Focke is an Egyptologist by profession, a teller of tales by trade. She spins tales of times long gone for curious visitors and of times that never were for any who will join her on the journey. Sonia lives in Munich, Germany. She has showered with a scorpion, married a blacksmith, moved house in a VW Polo and learned the whole of The Mikado by heart. More by Sonia Focke › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 24 April 202624 April 2026 · Friday Poetry A slam dunk publication Michael Farrell Australians said, landed among manatees, did useful, / neatnesses, knitted, pleasingly. Spared liaisons, amassed, / mortal dangers, unforeseen, nor kids, prayed aloud. 1 23 April 202623 April 2026 · The media The importance of democratic frequencies: on the threatened closure of 2SER Daz Chandler 2SER operates not just as a broadcaster, but as an incubator of democratic culture, its alumni carrying forward practices shaped by collaboration, dissent and accountability to community.
